The Improbable Expectations of Bill de Blasio

Last weekend, Bill de Blasio corrected a reporter who said he only had 36 hours to go before taking the oath of office as the next mayor of New York City. From the New York Times:

You could hardly blame de Blasio for savoring every moment of being mayor-elect rather than mayor-in-fact. All fall, his surprising come-from-behind campaign went from one feel-good moment to the next, culminating in a crushing landslide over the Republican candidate, Joe Lhota. (After the primary, the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart declared that he wanted to be adopted by the charismatic de Blasio family.) New Yorkers sick of Michael Bloomberg’s billionaire-centric policies and worried about the future of the city’s middle and working classes embraced de Blasio’s progressive agenda and his talk of “a tale of two cities,” separate and unequal.